Use base contact for the actual destination

Base contact is required for patients who meet OCEMS stroke-neurology triage criteria.
This list shows designated centers; it does not show real-time diversion, imaging capability, or specialty-bed availability.
Orange County Global Medical Center is not on the current 240.20 list effective January 1, 2026.

Current stroke-neurology receiving centers

Eight hospitals appear on OCEMS Policy 240.20, effective January 1, 2026.
Use the current policy list instead of memory; facility designations changed between the 2024 and 2026 versions.

Stroke-neurology receiving center	City
Hoag Hospital - Newport Beach	Newport Beach
Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo	Mission Viejo
Saddleback Memorial Medical Center	Laguna Hills
Saint Joseph Hospital	Orange
Saint Jude Medical Center	Fullerton
UCI Health - Fountain Valley	Fountain Valley
UCI Health - Los Alamitos	Los Alamitos
UCI Health - Orange	Orange

Complete the OCEMS adult stroke-neurology triage assessment, including exact last-known-well time, responsiveness, and the qualifying new focal finding or intracerebral-hemorrhage criteria.
Make base contact for every patient who meets stroke-neurology triage criteria and report the actual findings, side, glucose, blood pressure, and time information.
Coordinate the Stroke-Neurology Receiving Center destination through base. If the patient does not meet the triage criteria, follow the standing order for transport to the nearest appropriate emergency receiving center.
Avoid IO and external-jugular access in a potential SNRC patient when the standing order's thrombolysis precaution applies.

The full stroke guide includes the OCEMS neurologic checks, hemorrhage criteria, treatment, documentation, and base-contact requirements.
Community spoke-hospital assignments are a system reference and do not replace prehospital base direction.